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John Updike

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JOHN UPDIKE was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.


CHRISTOPHER CARDUFF is a member of the staff of The Library of America and the editor of John Updike’s posthumous volumes Higher Gossip, Always Looking, and The Collected Stories. He lives in Melrose, Massachusetts. 


BRAD LEITHAUSER is the author of sixteen books, the most recent of which is The Oldest Word for Dawn: New and Selected Poems. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and Iceland’s Order of the Falcon, he is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and divides his time between Baltimore, Maryland, and Amherst, Massachusetts.

John Updike Books

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Surviving

Henry Green
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Lectures on Literature

Vladimir Nabokov
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Selected Poems of John Updike

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Buchanan Dying

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Hugging the Shore

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Picked-Up Pieces

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Odd Jobs

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Always Looking

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The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs

The New Yorker Magazine
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Memories of the Ford Administration

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The Same Door

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Too Far to Go

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Assorted Prose

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Marry Me

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The Music School

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Problems

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Pigeon Feathers

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Museums & Women and Other Stories

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Trust Me

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Brazil

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